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What does does it mean to be "innovative?"

First, and invention is not an innovation until it is used.
The second thing follows from the first, that it is not a solo act. The acceptance of an invention, its use in the day-to-day behavior, is a consequence of it providing value and the effort of someone to bring the inventions to others to see and an instinct by the inventor that people will need or want it. Basically, innovation is an explanation, not a cause. What are the locations in the swirl of human activity we call "innovation?"

It is in places where social worlds overlap. Someone sees that something is working in one place and moving it to another. This is not to say that innovation is a random consequence of interaction. Some person must not only recognize the applicablity of something from one place in another place, but must convince people not only to do things differently, but to accept it from somewhere else..

 

 

So innovators are not people that get ideas from nowhere, but people who learn to go beyond their world, to seek out and recognize solutions from other places and the belief in themselves that they what they have is of value.

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